The book that changed America : how Darwin's theory of evolution ignited a nation, Randall Fuller

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Traces the impact of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" on a diverse group of writers, abolitionists, and social reformers, including Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott, against a backdrop of growing tensions and transcendental idealism in 1860 America

Traces the impact of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" on a diverse group of writers, abolitionists, and social reformers, including Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott, against a backdrop of growing tensions and transcendental idealism in 1860 America

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DLC

http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate

1963-

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Fuller, Randall

Dewey number

576.8/2

Illustrations

illustrations

plates

Index

index present

LC call number

QH365.O8

LC item number

F85 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

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Darwin, Charles

Darwin, Charles

Evolution (Biology)

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The book that changed America : how Darwin's theory of evolution ignited a nation, Randall Fuller

Part I: Origins -- The Book from Across the Atlantic -- Gray's Botany -- Beetles, Birds, Theories -- Word of Mouth -- Making a Stir -- A Night at the Lyceum -- The Nick of Time -- Part II: Struggles -- Bones of Contention -- Agassiz -- The What-Is-It? -- A Spirited Conflict -- Into the Vortex -- Tree of Life -- A Jolt of Recognition -- Wildfires -- Part III: Adaptations -- Discord in Concord -- Moods -- Meditations in a Garden -- The Succession of Forest Trees -- Races of the Old World -- A Cold Shudder -- Part IV: Transformations -- At Down House -- The Ghost of John Brown -- In the Transcendental Graveyard

Control code

1676364

Dimensions

24 cm

Extent

x, 294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates

Isbn

9780525428336

Isbn Type

(hardcover)

Lccn

2016010344

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

n

Other physical details

illustrations

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(Sirsi) 1676364

(Sirsi) 1676364

(OCoLC)949142721

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The book that changed America : how Darwin's theory of evolution ignited a nation, Randall Fuller

Part I: Origins -- The Book from Across the Atlantic -- Gray's Botany -- Beetles, Birds, Theories -- Word of Mouth -- Making a Stir -- A Night at the Lyceum -- The Nick of Time -- Part II: Struggles -- Bones of Contention -- Agassiz -- The What-Is-It? -- A Spirited Conflict -- Into the Vortex -- Tree of Life -- A Jolt of Recognition -- Wildfires -- Part III: Adaptations -- Discord in Concord -- Moods -- Meditations in a Garden -- The Succession of Forest Trees -- Races of the Old World -- A Cold Shudder -- Part IV: Transformations -- At Down House -- The Ghost of John Brown -- In the Transcendental Graveyard